Brian Kephart

I play guitar and bass. Sometimes I code.

Kansas City Joined on Sep 15, 2017 https://www.briankephart.com

Work

Director of Technology at Music House School of Music

heroku-buildpack-jemalloc

Jemalloc buildpack for Heroku

Shell • 7 stars

camaleon_sitemap_customizer

Customize the auto-generated sitemaps in Camaleon CMS

Ruby • 4 stars

camaleon_image_optimizer

A convenient image optimizer plugin for Camaleon CMS.

Ruby • 2 stars

puma_worker_killer

Automatically restart Puma cluster workers based on max RAM available

Fork Ruby

Ruby on Rails

https://www.musichouseschool.com, https://www.ladiesofthechains.com, Camaleon CMS and associated plugins. Working on an Active Storage uploader for Camaleon.

I'm a solo dev, and I'm up for any conversations with other solo devs trying to get into the community or solve their own problems.

14 posts published

123 comments written

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Brian Kephart

Aug 26 '20

Rendering Views through Action Cable with Devise and CanCanCan

#ruby #rails #actioncable #websockets

3 min read

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Brian Kephart

Jun 26 '20

Collection Caching in Rails with Local Variables

#discuss #rails #ruby #performance

2 min read

Brian Kephart

Mar 23 '19

Mac users, recommend me a booklet printer!

#help

1 min read

Brian Kephart

Feb 26 '19

75 people followed me yesterday. Why?

#meta

1 min read

Brian Kephart

Feb 9 '19

Template design pattern in Ruby. Any reason not to use a module instead of a superclass?

#discuss #ruby #oop

1 min read

Brian Kephart

Aug 29 '18

Dropdowns Without Javascript

#css #ui

2 min read

Brian Kephart

Aug 15 '18

Adding Code Quality Checks To Your Ruby Test Suite

#ruby #rails #testing

4 min read

Brian Kephart

Jun 10 '18

Explain Generics Like I'm Five

#explainlikeimfive #discuss #generics

1 min read

Brian Kephart

Jun 8 '18

Passing Arguments to StimulusJS Controllers

#stimulus #javascript #rails

4 min read

Brian Kephart

May 6 '18

What hobby/skill do you wish you pursued more regularly?

#discuss #hobbies #music

1 min read

Brian Kephart

Apr 20 '18

My Experience as a RailsConf Opportunity Scholar

#rails #ruby #conference

9 min read

Brian Kephart

Mar 28 '18

Testing Bidirectional Associations in Rails

#ruby #rails #minitest

7 min read

Brian Kephart

Feb 18 '18

Redis is letting you down, but it doesn't have to

#redis #heroku #rails #ruby

3 min read

Brian Kephart

Feb 17 '18

Basic Concurrency in Ruby. Really Basic.

#ruby #concurrency #mri #cruby

2 min read

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Rendering Views through Action Cable with Devise and CanCanCan

Want to connect with Brian Kephart?

Collection Caching in Rails with Local Variables

Mac users, recommend me a booklet printer!

75 people followed me yesterday. Why?

Template design pattern in Ruby. Any reason not to use a module instead of a superclass?

Dropdowns Without Javascript

Adding Code Quality Checks To Your Ruby Test Suite

Explain Generics Like I'm Five

Passing Arguments to StimulusJS Controllers

What hobby/skill do you wish you pursued more regularly?

My Experience as a RailsConf Opportunity Scholar

Testing Bidirectional Associations in Rails

Redis is letting you down, but it doesn't have to

Basic Concurrency in Ruby. Really Basic.